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WD_258/ 2007
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings 3 | | Medium: | oilstick on paper | | Size (inches): | 25.6 x 17.7 | | Size (mm): | 650 x 450 | | Catalog #: | WD_0258 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
Oscar Wilde Quotes - part 1:
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
All art is quite useless.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Everything popular is wrong.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
I can resist everything except temptation.
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
-www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/oscar_wilde.html
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